And once he said: "Four-fifths of our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."

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And you might have kind of been projecting ahead and thinking if we keep up at this pace, pretty much we would only get to carbon by the end of the semester.

你们可能会有这种推测：,如果我们以这个速度继续下去的话，这个学期,也只能讲到碳原子。

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Well, if it really was true then that if only we faced the facts about our mortality that we would live life rather differently, ? how could it be reasonable for us to disregard those facts?

如果这真的是真的,那么只要我们面对我们必有一死的事实,我们就会选择不同的生活，无视这些事实又怎么可能是合理的？

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As I said, in some context last time, how many Russian peasants died in the 1890s thinking, "Oh my god, if the Czar only knew that we're starving, how angry he would be with his officials."

就像我在上一讲提到的,有多少死于1890年代的俄国农民会想,"上帝啊,要是沙皇知道我们在挨饿就好了,他该对手下的官员发多大的火啊"

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So how would we go about solving this problem if I told you not only was there a maximum weight, but there was a maximum volume. Well, we want to go back and attack it exactly the way we attacked it the first time, which was write some mathematical formulas.

有些时候两个都重要,所以如果我告诉你这里不仅有,最大重量还有最大容量，我们应该怎么解决这个问题呢？,好了，我们想回过来然后,和第一次一样看看这个问题。

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